Father Ted creator Graham Linehan arrested over posts on transgender issues [View all]

Source: The Guardian

The writer of TV’s Father Ted has been arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts expressing his views on transgender issues.

Graham Linehan, who also created the IT Crowd and Black Books, said he was intercepted by five armed officers after flying in from Arizona and told he was under arrest over the messages.

Writing on Substack, the 57-year-old Irishman said he was taken to a cell and then questioned over the posts, published on X in April.

He said the posts related to him challenging a “trans-identified male” in a “female-only space”.

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